He wanted to be respectable rather than powerful; he did not want the controversy that went with power.

The government of the world's most powerful nation is running furiously in place.

Congress has a deep, vested interest in its own inefficiency.

An anti-politician is hardly an anti-politician once he starts winning and works to close the deal by working to sew up the Establishment.

If he had gone to the old school, he was by no means old-school.

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